20-30 Club Meets Here
The 20-30 Club in Amarillo invites young business men ages 20 to 31 to its third meeting at 8 PM in room 455 of the Amarillo Hotel. Albuquerque guests Danny MacPherson Ben Osuna and Harold Wilson attend. Joe Harlan, the newly elected president, expects committee appointments. officers Darrell Grundy and J. B. Linn were elected last week.
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Amarillo
Albuquerque Club
Danny MacPherson
Ben Osuna
Harold Wilson
Joe Harlan
Harlan
Darrell Grundy
J. B. Linn
Retail Druggists Elect Tomorrow in Amarillo
The Amarillo Retail Druggists Association will hold its regular meeting and annual election of officers tomorrow at 8 p m at the Amarillo Hotel. Verne Nelson presides. officers include P B Holman vice president Van Bruner treasurer and Carl Ray secretary. All retail druggists in Amarillo and the Panhandle are urged to attend.
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Amarillo
Government delays Burford removal in hot oil case
Government attorneys asked and were granted a delay in federal court to remove Freeman W. Burford, Dallas oil man, to New Orleans for charges of conspiracy to violate the Tamnally hot oil act.
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Dallas
Freeman W. Burford
New Orleans
Little to Address Credit Men at Tri-State Meeting
State Representative G H Jack Little will headline the Tri State Association of Credit Men meeting at the Capitol Hotel at 7. The Hot Check Law will be the main topic as wholesalers manufacturers and jobbers hear from Little. Out of town attendees include J L Vance Harold Hinn and Harold Hinn. More than 40 Amarillo manufacturers wholesalers and jobbers expected.
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Tri-State Association of Credit Men
Capitol Hotel
G. H
Jack” Little
Mr. Little
Burglary at Mrs Stephens Home on Pierce Street
Early last night a prowler entered the back door of Mrs J C Stephens home at 1813 Pierce Street while guests talked in the parlor. The thief rifled her purse and took $20, leaving a lone dollar behind. No one in the room reported the incident.
Scholarships For Singers At Amarillo College Offer Two Awards
Amarillo College offers two scholarships for the outstanding boy and girl singer in the Southwest. Each covers tuition fees and private voice training for freshmen applicants. Dean Jackson seeks a pianist accompanist with auditions set for Saturday morning at 10.
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Amarillo
Southwest
Amarillo College
Dean Jackson
Hayden Street
Soprano to Feature in Amarillo College Concert
Coloratura soprano Miss Imeta O Neal will headline a concert Tuesday night August 22 at the Amarillo College Auditorium. She is sister of Mrs A Y Ingham of Amarillo. The program includes 12 plus artists from Panhandle and Oklahoma fields who studied under Dean Jackson at Panhandle A M College Goodwell. The event features quartets and ensembles and the public is invited.
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Amarillo College
Imeta O'Neal
O'Neal
A. Y. Ingham
Amarillo
Folsom D. Jackson
Amarillo College Department of Fine Arts
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Dean Jackson
Panhandle A. & M. College
Goodwell
Okla
Courthouse Records Grant Deeds and Transfers Listed
A sequence of property transfers and mortgage notes appears, detailing deeds in Amarillo Heights San Jacinto Heights and Plemons plus related escrow and transfers. It lists grantees grantors and dollar amounts including several $1 and $3 560 00 and mentions various parties such as Porter Lindsey Evans Tow and Sheila Houghton along with marriage licenses for multiple couples.
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Georgia Porter
Frankie Lyman
Amarillo Heights
Archie F. Anderson
J. S. Lindsey
Summers
Glenn Lyman
Ridgemere
J. M. Shelton, Jr
Martha D. S. Houghton
Plemons
San Jacinto Heights
H. G. Wilson
Et Ux
C. A. Staehlin
E. F. Paul
Pauline Lokey
Eakle
T. F. Cochran
M. D. Cochran
Old Town
Glenwood
Amarillo Implement Co
Q.C.D
G. C. Odom
E. R. Cox
Wood-Webb Lumber Co
Bivins Estate
B. I. Barfield
Investors Syndicate
Country Club Terrace
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co
Mortgage Investment Corp
Life Insurance Company of Virginia
el Paso Bitulithic Co
GMC
Consumers Feed & Supply Co
Dodge
Neil McKillop
Chevrolet
R. H. Mallett
Nash
M. D. Snider
Geo. W Brown
DeSoto
E. E. Anderson
Hudson
Cullum Motor Co
Badger- Herring Sales & Drug Co
Floyd Wesley Clark
Mary W. Winter
L. W. Barrett
Estelle T. Bassett
W. T. Shock
Lucile Melchior
James C. Anderson, Jr
Mary A. Carver
Commission Hearings on Bus Permits Continue
The Texas Railroad Commission continued a series of hearings at the Herring Hotel on many applications to operate motor bus and motor freight lines in Panhandle and West Texas. B. L. Templeton leads the hearings. Testimony from yesterday's first day was heard and a heavy docket remains, with sessions likely to extend through the week.
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Texas Railroad Commission
Herring Hotel
Panhandle
West Texas
B. L. Templeton
Oil Tax Fight Deepens as Texas Gov Refuses Session
Gov W Lee O Danial rejects a five cent per barrel oil tax plan urged by the railroad commissioner. He cites a 30 minute radio address on the oil crisis and taxation. CIO Oil Workers Union leader Coulter warns of federal action to protect jobs amid shutdowns and 500000 affected families.
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W. Lee O'Daniel
Thompson
Fort Worth
J. L. Coulter
Oil Workers International Union
CIO
Texas
Coulter
Col. Thompson
Scout Leadership Courses Added to West Texas State College Curriculum
West Texas State College in Canyon will include Boy Scout leadership training in the fall curriculum. Dr. J. A. Hill announced to the Scoutmasters Roundtable that Milton Morris will lead the courses, open to senior students, as part of an expanded program. The group discussed merit badge exhibits for the Tri-State Fair and potential council campsites, with Ernie Webster chairing the campsite committee.
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West Texas State College
Canyon
J. A. Hill
Milton Morris
Hill
Dr. Hill
Llano Estacado Council of
Boy Scouts
Roundtable
Ernie Webster
Council
Largest cotton carry-over in U S history in 1939 40
Census Bureau reports the cotton carry-over on August 1 1939-40 reached 13 032 611 running bales the largest for this time of year in government statistics The forecasted crop of 11 412 000 bales will be added to the carry-over to form the year's supply compared with 11 533 439 bales last year and 4 498 848 two years ago The ten year average is 6 744 800 bales.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Agriculture Department
Potter County Sends $6,000 Inheritance Tax to Austin
Potter County reported 6000 dollars in inheritance tax paid to Austin from the H. W. Galbraith estate, the largest such item in months. The month’s total tax intake reached 9179.27 with highway fees of 4894.54. Commissioners accepted County Tax Officer Jewell Davidson’s monthly report.
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Potter County
Austin
H. W. Galbraith
Commissioners Court
Jewell Davidson
Army Reenacts Jacksons Old Cavalry Charge at Manassas
In Manassas Virginia on August 15 a reenactment recreates Stonewall Jacksons famed cavalry raid. The staged operation shifts battle lines for a major engagement in the armys mimic warfare exercise.
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Jackson
Manassas
Stonewall Jackson
International Harvester Dealers Meeting In Amarillo
International Harvester dealers and agents from the Amarillo territory attend a meeting at the Herring Hotel to introduce the new 1940 Farmall tractors and farm machinery. W A Fisk, manager of the Amarillo branch, leads the session.
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Amarillo Territory
Herring Hotel
W. A. Fisk
Amarillo
International Harvester Company
Amarillo Older Folk Celebrate Annual Party Event
Pride and happiness define Amarillo’s aging community gathering. The over 70 women display charm in smart attire while men in Sunday dress join the joyful event, organized by the Amarillo Council of Church Women with Mrs. J. W. Sanders as president and a slate of officers guiding the year’s activities.
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Amarillo
J. W. Sanders
Tower rising at KGNC site amid 10 acre tract
Workers push a 370 foot tower toward completion near KGNC transmitter on a 10 acre site southwest of town. Six guy wires and 21 insulators brace the structure as crews tunnel for concentric copper lines and visitors watch from cars. After wiring, a week of ground wire lay and antenna tuning follows.
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Gether
KGNC
Panhandle
Popularity Contest Winners Arrive on Santa Fe Limited
Eleven girls, winners of a Cincinnati Star-Times contest, arrived in Amarillo on the Santa Fe Canyon limited en route to the Grand Canyon and the San Francisco fair. Miss George Elliston, feature writer for the Cincinnati paper, leads the party after visiting the New York fair on the Grand Circle Tour prize.
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Cincinnati Star-Times
Amarillo
Grand Canyon
San Francisco
New York Fair
George Elliston
Cincinnati
Huey Long’s Former Secretary Appears Before Grand Jury
Alice Lee Grosjean Tharpe former private secretary to Huey P. Long and recent revenue collector testified before the East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury for about 45 minutes at its resumed session after a two week recess.
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Baton Rouge
Alice Lee Grosjean Tharpe
Huey P. Long
East Baton Rouge Parish
Grand Jury
Mrs. Gertie Gerdes Dies at Home
Mrs. Gertie Elizabeth Gerdes die suddenly at 10 am at her home 825 Carolina Street. She leaves husband Harry M. Gerdes two daughters Helen Gerdes Amarillo Edna Gerdes Grant Park Ill a son Roland Gerdes Grant Park Ill two brothers Henry May Minonk Ill two sisters Anna Alt El Paso Ill Louise Ward Minonk Ill and her parents Mr and Mrs O P May Minonk Ill She had lived in Amarillo three years Her body will be sent by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home to Minonk Ill for burial.
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Helen Gerdes
Amarillo
Edna Gerdes
Grant Park
Til
Roland Gerdes
Henry May
Minolk
Ill
Anna Alt
el Paso
Louise Ward
O. P. May
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Fil
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Uncle Sam
Burford
U.S
Jack Little
A.A.A
Speedway
Studebaker
C.I.T
Laura Wheeler
COPR
Needlecraft Service, Inc
Topsy Turvy Doll
Amarillo Globe
Needle
Craft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Courthouse Records
Commission
International Harvester Dealers Meeting
Weather Data
Abilene
Tex
Boise
Triado
Brownsville
Texanes
Chicago
Ohio
Clayton
Us Christi
del Rio
Denver
Colone
Des Moines
Tavee
Ore
Puebla
Colo
Rapid City
Roswell
St Louis
Salt Lake City
Santa Fe
N M
Cal
Sheridan, Wyosteee
Shreveport
Washington, D. C
Wichita, Kan
Williston
N. C
Wilmington
N.C
Winnemucca
Nev
New Mexico
Portland Cement Association
Norwood Bldg
Austin, Tene
Santa Fe Limited
Huey Long
Grand
Gertie Elizabeth Gerdes
Harry M. Gerdes
Carolina Street
Calvert
Calvert Distillers
New York City
Ash
Globe-News
Kinney’s
Kinwney Srore
Polk Street
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